Nine of my bands earned spots at the UIL State Marching Contest on Saturday. Argyle won 5A Area B and Mineola won 3A Area C, both taking 1st in prelims and finals. Harlingen South, C.C. Winn and Orange Grove each finished 2nd at Area, and Long Creek, Reedy, Hondo and...
63 of the 67 bands I write for that have marched UIL Region so far came home with a Division I, and every one of those 63 moves on to Area. That covers 25 different regions, from El Paso and Amarillo down to the Rio Grande Valley, between October 8 and October 21....
Cascade was grand champion at the Mid-South Marching Invitational on Saturday, Lake Central won the ISSMA Scholastic Class A state title, and Floyd Central took 2nd in Class AA at the Bands of America Indianapolis Super Regional. Mountain Ridge and Highland both won...
Saturday was a big day for the bands playing my shows. Three Bands of America regionals ran in Texas on October 10, and Argyle came out of Prosper with the Class AAA title plus the AAA Music and General Effect awards. Long Creek won Class AA at BOA Central Texas,...
This is a midweek round of marching band contest results for the bands performing my shows this fall. UIL region season has started, and Clear Lake was one of the first of my bands through it, with straight 1s on Thursday night. Two more bands sent me first-place...
Two of my newest concert band pieces made the 2026-27 Bandworld Top 100. One is Inspirare, an original work. The other is my new setting of Richard Strauss’s Vienna Philharmonic Fanfare. RWS Music Company publishes both. Directors’ reading bands will...
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